Does Facebook's Overseas Growth Matter? — Earlier this month, I shared with you my post that called for a big wake-up call for Social Networking sector, thanks to the presence of too many me-too players at a time when recent traffic trends are showing signs of hitting a plateau.

Surviving the Net — Who controls TinyURL (or Snurl or other URL shortener) controls the high ground in the battle for the Internet platform. Here's why: Our brains are wired to protect ourselves from threats to our food, oxygen, and water sources. Most attacks on our supply chains come …

MPAA Says It Doesn't Need Evidence to Convict Pirates — Threat Level reports that the MPAA now argues that it has the right to demand up to $150,000 in damages per illegally downloaded file, without having to proof that someone actually downloaded that file. — Yes we know, this doesn't make sense at all.

Evolution of Gmail chat — Often, the features we launch seem so simple that you might think they're the result of blatantly obvious design decisions. In fact, every feature is subjected to a healthy dose of scrutiny within the Gmail team, and usually that includes rapidly iterating …

Where In The World Is Jerry Yang? — People have been wondering about Jerry Yang all week. He's been quiet since the NYTimes article calling for his head was published last weekend. — This isn't an issue of him simply being out of town. He was in Washington D.C. on Wednesday meeting …

WWDC Snow Leopard and Safari 4 Screenshots — German site Apfeltalk.de has posted (via Engadget) screenshots from Safari 4 as well as Apple's preview release of Snow Leopard given to developers at WWDC. — Not surprisingly, since the next version of Mac OS X is being billed as having few new features …

May Search Market Share Update: Crowd Sourcing Works! — See I told you we wouldn't stop! As it turns out people are paying attention to this search share stuff. On Monday we released our May Search Share numbers. As a result of some conversations we were having with Danny Sullivan …

Taterf - all your drives are belong to me!!!1!one! — As you all probably know by now, this month in MSRT was a very significant release for Gamers everywhere with the addition of a variety of password stealers directly targeting Online games. The main targets are mostly based in Eastern Asia …